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How to integrate Monday MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Monday to the OpenAI Agents SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Monday agent that can create and update items, set board column values, organize boards and groups, post updates, and write docs through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your OpenAI Agents SDK agent real control over a Monday account through Composio's Monday MCP server.

Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

For exact tool slugs and parameter tables, see the tool catalog in the Composio docs.

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TL;DR

Here's what you'll learn:
  • Get and set up your OpenAI and Composio API keys
  • Install the necessary dependencies
  • Initialize Composio and create a Tool Router session for Monday
  • Configure an AI agent that can use Monday as a tool
  • Run a live chat session where you can ask the agent to perform Monday operations

What is OpenAI Agents SDK?

The OpenAI Agents SDK is a lightweight framework for building AI agents that can use tools and maintain conversation state. It provides a simple interface for creating agents with hosted MCP tool support.

Key features include:

  • Hosted MCP Tools: Connect to external services through hosted MCP endpoints
  • SQLite Sessions: Persist conversation history across interactions
  • Simple API: Clean interface with Agent, Runner, and tool configuration
  • Streaming Support: Real-time response streaming for interactive applications

What is the Monday MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Monday MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Monday account. It provides structured and secure access to your boards, items, columns, users, sprints, and docs, so your agent can create projects, manage work items, update board details, track sprints, and organize teams on your behalf.

  • Board and project creation: Have your agent create boards, convert existing boards into projects, connect projects to portfolios, and update board settings.
  • Item and workflow management: Let the agent create items from your instructions, find work by column values, move items between groups, and update text, status, or dropdown fields.
  • Board structure and access: Direct your agent to create columns, add users to boards, and set default board roles and permissions.
  • Sprint and work tracking: Instruct your agent to review sprint data, retrieve board items, and check item details, status, and group placement.
  • Workspace content and organization: Have your agent retrieve Monday docs, list account users, update folder details, and confirm which Monday account is connected.

What is the Composio tool router, and how does it fit here?

What is Composio SDK?

Composio's Composio SDK helps agents find the right tools for a task at runtime. You can plug in multiple toolkits (like Gmail, HubSpot, and GitHub), and the agent will identify the relevant app and action to complete multi-step workflows. This can reduce token usage and improve the reliability of tool calls. Read more here: Getting started with Composio SDK

The tool router generates a secure MCP URL that your agents can access to perform actions.

How the Composio SDK works

The Composio SDK follows a three-phase workflow:

  1. Discovery: Searches for tools matching your task and returns relevant toolkits with their details.
  2. Authentication: Checks for active connections. If missing, creates an auth config and returns a connection URL via Auth Link.
  3. Execution: Executes the action using the authenticated connection.

Step-by-step Guide

Step by step09 STEPS
1

Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure you have:
  • Composio API Key and OpenAI API Key
  • Primary know-how of OpenAI Agents SDK
  • A live Monday project
  • Some knowledge of Python or Typescript
2

Getting API Keys for OpenAI and Composio

OpenAI API Key
  • Go to the OpenAI dashboard and create an API key. You'll need credits to use the models, or you can connect to another model provider.
  • Keep the API key safe.
Composio API Key
3

Install dependencies

npm install @composio/openai-agents @openai/agents dotenv

Install the Composio SDK and the OpenAI Agents SDK.

4

Set up environment variables

bash
OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...your-api-key
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your-api-key
USER_ID=composio_user@gmail.com

Create a .env file and add your OpenAI and Composio API keys.

5

Import dependencies

import 'dotenv/config';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { OpenAIAgentsProvider } from '@composio/openai-agents';
import { Agent, hostedMcpTool, run, OpenAIConversationsSession } from '@openai/agents';
import * as readline from 'readline';
What's happening:
  • You're importing all necessary libraries.
  • The Composio and OpenAIAgentsProvider classes are imported to connect your OpenAI agent to Composio tools like Monday.
6

Set up the Composio instance

dotenv.config();

const composioApiKey = process.env.COMPOSIO_API_KEY;
const userId = process.env.USER_ID;

if (!composioApiKey) {
  throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set. Create a .env file with COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_key');
}
if (!userId) {
  throw new Error('USER_ID is not set');
}

// Initialize Composio
const composio = new Composio({
  apiKey: composioApiKey,
  provider: new OpenAIAgentsProvider(),
});
What's happening:
  • dotenv.config() loads your .env file so COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID are available as environment variables.
  • Creating a Composio instance using the API Key and OpenAIAgentsProvider class.
7

Create a Tool Router session

// Create Tool Router session for Monday
const session = await composio.create(userId as string, {
  toolkits: ['monday'],
});
const mcpUrl = session.mcp.url;

What is happening:

  • You give the Tool Router the user id and the toolkits you want available. Here, it is only monday.
  • The router checks the user's Monday connection and prepares the MCP endpoint.
  • The returned session.mcp.url is the MCP URL that your agent will use to access Monday.
  • This approach keeps things lightweight and lets the agent request Monday tools only when needed during the conversation.
8

Configure the agent

// Configure agent with MCP tool
const agent = new Agent({
  name: 'Assistant',
  model: 'gpt-5',
  instructions:
    'You are a helpful assistant that can access Monday. Help users perform Monday operations through natural language.',
  tools: [
    hostedMcpTool({
      serverLabel: 'tool_router',
      serverUrl: mcpUrl,
      headers: { 'x-api-key': composioApiKey },
      requireApproval: 'never',
    }),
  ],
});
What's happening:
  • We're creating an Agent instance with a name, model (gpt-5), and clear instructions about its purpose.
  • The agent's instructions tell it that it can access Monday and help with queries, inserts, updates, authentication, and fetching database information.
  • The tools array includes a hostedMcpTool that connects to the MCP server URL we created earlier.
  • The headers object includes the Composio API key for secure authentication with the MCP server.
  • requireApproval: 'never' means the agent can execute Monday operations without asking for permission each time, making interactions smoother.
9

Start chat loop and handle conversation

// Keep conversation state across turns
const conversationSession = new OpenAIConversationsSession();

// Simple CLI
const rl = readline.createInterface({
  input: process.stdin,
  output: process.stdout,
  prompt: 'You: ',
});

console.log('\nComposio Tool Router session created.');
console.log('\nChat started. Type your requests below.');
console.log("Commands: 'exit', 'quit', or 'q' to end\n");

try {
  const first = await run(agent, 'What can you help me with?', { session: conversationSession });
  console.log(`Assistant: ${first.finalOutput}\n`);
} catch (e) {
  console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
}

rl.prompt();

rl.on('line', async (userInput) => {
  const text = userInput.trim();

  if (['exit', 'quit', 'q'].includes(text.toLowerCase())) {
    console.log('Goodbye!');
    rl.close();
    process.exit(0);
  }

  if (!text) {
    rl.prompt();
    return;
  }

  try {
    const result = await run(agent, text, { session: conversationSession });
    console.log(`\nAssistant: ${result.finalOutput}\n`);
  } catch (e) {
    console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
  }

  rl.prompt();
});

rl.on('close', () => {
  console.log('\n👋 Session ended.');
  process.exit(0);
});
What's happening:
  • The program prints a session URL that you visit to authorize Monday.
  • After authorization, the chat begins.
  • Each message you type is processed by the agent using run().
  • The responses are printed to the console.
  • Typing exit, quit, or q cleanly ends the chat.

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Monday and OpenAI Agents SDK:

import 'dotenv/config';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { OpenAIAgentsProvider } from '@composio/openai-agents';
import { Agent, hostedMcpTool, run, OpenAIConversationsSession } from '@openai/agents';
import * as readline from 'readline';

const composioApiKey = process.env.COMPOSIO_API_KEY;
const userId = process.env.USER_ID;

if (!composioApiKey) {
  throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set. Create a .env file with COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_key');
}
if (!userId) {
  throw new Error('USER_ID is not set');
}

// Initialize Composio
const composio = new Composio({
  apiKey: composioApiKey,
  provider: new OpenAIAgentsProvider(),
});

async function main() {
  // Create Tool Router session
  const session = await composio.create(userId as string, {
    toolkits: ['monday'],
  });
  const mcpUrl = session.mcp.url;

  // Configure agent with MCP tool
  const agent = new Agent({
    name: 'Assistant',
    model: 'gpt-5',
    instructions:
      'You are a helpful assistant that can access Monday. Help users perform Monday operations through natural language.',
    tools: [
      hostedMcpTool({
        serverLabel: 'tool_router',
        serverUrl: mcpUrl,
        headers: { 'x-api-key': composioApiKey },
        requireApproval: 'never',
      }),
    ],
  });

  // Keep conversation state across turns
  const conversationSession = new OpenAIConversationsSession();

  // Simple CLI
  const rl = readline.createInterface({
    input: process.stdin,
    output: process.stdout,
    prompt: 'You: ',
  });

  console.log('\nComposio Tool Router session created.');
  console.log('\nChat started. Type your requests below.');
  console.log("Commands: 'exit', 'quit', or 'q' to end\n");

  try {
    const first = await run(agent, 'What can you help me with?', { session: conversationSession });
    console.log(`Assistant: ${first.finalOutput}\n`);
  } catch (e) {
    console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
  }

  rl.prompt();

  rl.on('line', async (userInput) => {
    const text = userInput.trim();

    if (['exit', 'quit', 'q'].includes(text.toLowerCase())) {
      console.log('Goodbye!');
      rl.close();
      process.exit(0);
    }

    if (!text) {
      rl.prompt();
      return;
    }

    try {
      const result = await run(agent, text, { session: conversationSession });
      console.log(`\nAssistant: ${result.finalOutput}\n`);
    } catch (e) {
      console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
    }

    rl.prompt();
  });

  rl.on('close', () => {
    console.log('\nSession ended.');
    process.exit(0);
  });
}

main().catch((err) => {
  console.error('Fatal error:', err);
  process.exit(1);
});

Conclusion

This was a starter code for integrating Monday MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK to build a functional AI agent that can interact with Monday.

Key features:

  • Hosted MCP tool integration through Composio's Tool Router
  • SQLite session persistence for conversation history
  • Simple async chat loop for interactive testing
You can extend this by adding more toolkits, implementing custom business logic, or building a web interface around the agent.
TOOLS & TRIGGERS

Supported Tools and Triggers

Every Monday action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Get account trigger statistics

Tool to retrieve statistics about account-level triggers and automations.

Activate users

Tool to activate or reactivate users in a Monday.

Add subscribers to object

Tool to add subscribers or owners to a monday.

Add teams to board

Tool to add teams to a Monday.

Add users to board

Adds users to a Monday.

Add users to team

Adds users to a Monday.

Add users to workspace

Adds existing users to a workspace.

Aggregate board data

Aggregate data from a Monday.

Get app subscription

Tool to retrieve current app subscription data for the account.

Archive board

Archives a specified, existing, and unarchived board in Monday.

Archive item

Archives an existing Monday.

Archive object

Archives a Monday.

Archive workspace

Delete a Monday.

Get audit logs

Tool to retrieve detailed security-related activity records for a Monday.

Get document blocks

Tool to retrieve document block data from workdocs via the API.

Get boards

Retrieves metadata for one or multiple monday.

Change simple column value

Changes a monday.

Get board columns

Retrieves column metadata from monday.

Get connection board IDs

Tool to retrieve board IDs associated with connection columns.

Get connections

Tool to retrieve connection data for integrations with external services.

Connect project to portfolio

Links an existing project board to a portfolio board for centralized management.

Convert board to project

Converts a regular Monday.

Create a Monday board

Creates a Monday.

Create column

Creates a new column with a specified type and title on a monday.

Create custom activity

Tool to create a custom activity in the Monday.

Create a Monday dashboard

Tool to create a Monday.

Create doc

Tool to create a new doc in Monday.

Create a folder

Tool to create a new folder in a Monday.

Create group

Creates a new group with the given `group_name` on an existing Monday.

Create item

Creates a new item on a Monday.

Create Item From Natural Language

Creates a new item on a Monday.

Create notification

Tool to send a notification to a user.

Create object

Execute a custom Monday.

Create tag

Tool to create a new tag or return an existing tag.

Create timeline item

Tool to create a new timeline item in the Emails & Activities app on a Monday.

Create update

Tool to create a new update for an item or reply to an existing update.

Invite and create a Monday user

Tool to invite and create a new user.

Create a Monday workspace

Tool to create a Monday.

Get custom activity

Tool to retrieve custom activity data from the Emails & Activities app.

Deactivate users

Deactivates up to 200 users per request from a monday.

Delete asset

Remove uploaded files by deleting an enclosing update or clearing all files from an item's File column; the required asset ID does not select which file is removed.

Delete board

Tool to permanently delete a board from your Monday.

Delete column

Deletes a specified column from a Monday.

Delete Custom Activity

Tool to delete a custom activity from the Emails & Activities app.

Delete doc

Deletes a Monday.

Delete folder

Tool to permanently delete a folder and all its contents from a Monday.

Delete group

Permanently deletes an existing group (and its items) from an existing board in Monday.

Delete item

Permanently deletes an existing Monday.

Delete object

Tool to permanently delete a Monday.

Delete subscribers from board

Tool to remove subscribers from a Monday.

Delete tag

Tool to remove a tag from an item in Monday.

Delete team

Delete an existing Monday.

Delete teams from board

Remove teams from a Monday.

Delete teams from workspace

Tool to remove teams from a workspace.

Delete timeline item

Tool to delete a timeline item from the Emails & Activities app.

Delete update

Tool to delete an update by its ID.

Delete workspace

Tool to permanently delete a workspace by its ID.

Retrieve Monday docs

Tool to retrieve Monday.

Duplicate board

Tool to duplicate a Monday.

Duplicate item

Duplicates an item on a Monday.

Edit update

Tool to modify the text content of an existing update on an item.

Get account info

Retrieve account metadata and settings for the authenticated Monday.

Get board activity logs

Tool to retrieve activity logs from a specific Monday.

Get API version

Tool to retrieve the Monday.

Get assets

Tool to retrieve file/asset metadata from monday.

Get board views

Tool to retrieve board view data via GraphQL API.

Get favorites

Tool to retrieve all favorited items for the authenticated user.

Get folders

Tool to retrieve folder data from workspaces with filtering and pagination options.

Get form details

Tool to retrieve form metadata via the API using the form's unique token from the URL.

Get items by IDs

Tool to retrieve specific items by their IDs from Monday.

Get current user

Tool to fetch the current authenticated user's profile and permissions.

Execute GraphQL and get mutation complexity

Execute a caller-provided Monday.

Get query complexity

Retrieve Monday.

Get tags

Tool to retrieve tags from the account.

Get teams

Tool to retrieve teams from Monday.

Get update replies

Retrieves updates and their replies for a specific Monday.

Get item updates

Tool to retrieve updates for a specific item.

Get API versions

Tool to retrieve data about available API versions.

Get view schema by type

Tool to retrieve type-specific board view configuration schemas via GraphQL API.

Get webhooks

Tool to retrieve webhooks for a board.

Get workspaces

Tool to retrieve workspaces.

Import doc from HTML

Tool to import HTML content into a new Monday.

Get items page

Retrieve a page of items from a Monday.

Like update

Tool to like an update on an item.

List groups

Retrieves groups from a specified Monday.

List items

Retrieve specified Monday.

List items by column values

Tool to search for items on a Monday.

List subitems by parent

Tool to retrieve subitems nested under parent items via GraphQL API.

List team members

List members of Monday.

List users

Retrieves a list of users from Monday.

Move item to board

Moves a Monday.

Move item to group

Moves an item to a different group on the same Monday.

Query board mute settings

Tool to query a board's notification mute settings.

Pin update to top

Tool to pin an update to the top of an item.

Publish object

Tool to publish a Monday.

Query dashboards

Query Monday.

Query sprints

Tool to query sprint data for agile project management from Monday.

Remove users from team

Removes users from a Monday.

Remove users from workspace

Tool to remove users from a workspace.

Set board permission

Sets or updates a board's default role and permissions.

Get item timeline

Tool to retrieve an item's Email & Activities (E&A) timeline data from Monday.

Get timeline item

Tool to retrieve a specific timeline item from the Emails & Activities app by ID.

Unlike update

Tool to remove a like from an update on an item.

Unpin update from top

Tool to unpin an update from the top of an item.

Unpublish object

Unpublish a Monday.

Update board

Updates a specified attribute of an existing board on Monday.

Update board hierarchy

Updates a board's position, workspace, or product in Monday.

Update column

Tool to update column title or description.

Update a doc

Updates a doc's title and/or adds Markdown content, optionally after a specified block.

Update email domain

Tool to update users' email domains.

Update a Monday folder

Tool to update a Monday.

Update group

Tool to update an existing group on a board.

Update item

Tool to update an existing item's column value on Monday.

Update multiple users

Tool to update one or multiple users' attributes on Monday.

Update mute board settings

Tool to update a board's notification mute settings.

Update tag

Tool to return a tag's details or best-effort "rename" by creating or getting a tag with the requested name.

Update team

Add users to a Monday.

Update users role

Updates users' roles to custom or default roles; this admin-only operation cannot update your own role.

Update a Monday workspace

Tool to update a Monday.

Upload Asset

Tool to upload a file to an update or file column.

Get user connections

Tool to query user-specific connection data from Monday.

Who Am I

Return the identity (name, email, account) of the connected monday.

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